Cloud Engineer

We are looking for a highly skilled Senior Cloud Engineer to join our payment gateway development team. The ideal candidate should have extensive experience in designing, deploying, and managing cloud-based solutions on AWS, with additional exposure to Azure and GCP environments. The candidate should be proficient in cloud networking, container orchestration, data services, and have a strong understanding of event-driven and microservices architectures. Hands-on experience in Kong API Gateway and Java-based solutions is essential.

Key Responsibilities:

Cloud Architecture & Implementation

• Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud infrastructures on AWS.

• Architect and deploy multi-account, multi-region AWS environments using best practices.

• Implement and manage AWS networking services — including VPC, Transit Gateway, VPN, Direct Connect, Route 53, and Network Load Balancers.

• Set up and optimize ECS, EKS clusters for containerized microservices.

• Configure and manage AWS data services such as RDS, DynamoDB, Glue, S3, and SageMaker for analytics and AI workloads.

• Work with AWS Bedrock and other AI/ML services for intelligent automation and model deployment.

API & Event-driven Architecture

• Design and maintain Kong API Gateway for secure, scalable API management.

• Implement event-driven architectures using SNS, SQS, EventBridge, Lambda, and Kafka (if applicable).

• Ensure efficient communication and integration across microservices.

DevOps & Automation

• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployment using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or AWS CodePipeline.

• Manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform or AWS CloudFormation.

• Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK.

Security & Compliance

• Apply best practices for security, identity management (IAM), encryption, and compliance (PCI DSS) for payment systems.

• Ensure adherence to high-availability and disaster recovery architectures.

Cross-Cloud Exposure

• Collaborate with teams working on Azure and GCP to ensure interoperability and hybrid-cloud designs.

• Evaluate and integrate services across multiple cloud platforms when required.

Collaboration & Leadership

• Work closely with solution architects, backend developers, and data engineers.

• Contribute to architecture design reviews and technical documentation.

• Mentor junior cloud engineers and participate in code and infrastructure reviews.